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Election Season Speeds Settlement in the Occupied Territories
A recent headline in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot said it all--"Non-Stop Building."  "What was done until now in secret has come into the open: the bulldozers are working non- stop in settlements--every day new footholds are established, caravans are placed on the land and many settlements are expanded." Read more

To Our Readers
Israel's election campaign, the longest in its history, is well under way. From all indications, the major aspirants for the premiership--the Labor Party's Ehud Barak, Yitzhak Mordechai of the "center" party, and, lest one forget, the incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu--are each running away from extremes of right and left to the hoped for popularity of the middle. Read more

Israel's 1999 Budget Includes More than $400 Million for Settlements

From the Israeli Press
"Thoroughly Conceived Oppression"
by Ha'aretz West Bank correspondent Amira Hass,
February 10, 1999 Read more

Settlement Timeline

Jerusalem Backgrounder

Back Panel Quote
Na'if Hawatme, secretary-general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on events at the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein, as reported by United Press International, February 10, 1999 Read more

Map: West Bank Hilltop Settlements and Bypass Roads